In The Mailbox: 08.14.18

Posted on | August 14, 2018 | 1 Comment

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Westminster Terror Attack
Twitchy: J.R. Salzman Torches “Shitbag Journalist” Who Crapped On Jesse kelly’s Military Service
Louder With Crowder: Suspects In NM Muslim Compound Released Against Sheriff’s Wishes

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Definition Of Hypergamy
American Thinker: Defend Conservatism By Going On The Attack, also, Trump Haters Meet The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Higher Education News
BattleSwarm: Mickey Kaus On Ann Coulter On Immigration, also, Persuasion, Ritual Magic, & The Kek Wars
CDR Salamander: Why Ghazni Matters
Da Tech Guy: Ten One Line Thoughts Under My Fedora, also, Slouching Toward Damascus
Don Surber: Why Did We Name A Bill After John McCain?
Dustbury: They Missed “BFD”
The Geller Report: Muslim Migrants Set 100 Cars Aflame In Swedish “No Go” Zones, also, Muslim Migrant Gets Death Penalty In Texas For Multiple Honor Murders
Hogewash: That’s Not Funny, also, Team Kimberlin Post of The Day
Legal Insurrection: Amid Turkey’s Meltdown, Erdogan Announces Boycott Of American Goods, also, Ben Carson To Tackle Onerous Zoning Regulations That Stymie Development
The PanAm Post: US Government Investigating Maduro & Stepsons For Malta Money Laundering
Power Line: Is It “Fa” Or Is It Antifa? also, Take Me Out To Kavanaugh’s Ball Game
Shark Tank: Governor Scott Points Out Florida Has Reduced State Debt
Shot In The Dark: This Should Be A Surprise To Nobody
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday
The Political Hat: What’s Not Beyond The Pale Is Within It
This Ain’t Hell: Sam Adams Still Kicking Ass, also, Florida Man Charged In Stand Your Ground Shooting
Victory Girls: The Most Stupid Meme On The Internet
Volokh Conspiracy: Antifa As Antipasto
Weasel Zippers: Dem Senator Bill Nelson Goes Silent Amid Charges Of Fabricating Russian Hacker Claim, also, Omarosa Was A Horrible Employee For The Clinton Administration Too
Megan McArdle: An Encouraging Sign Of Waning White Nationalism
Mark Steyn: There’s Something About Mary, also, On A Slow Boat To China

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Ruby Rose: Not Lesbian Enough for SJWs

Posted on | August 14, 2018 | 1 Comment

In case you don’t know, The CW is a cable network, jointly owned by CBS and Warner Brothers, that has a demonstrable pattern of putting homosexual characters into all its shows. Like, there was a lesbian character named Lexa on The CW’s show The 100 who had a romance with another of the female characters, spawning about a zillion GIF-filled posts on the Tumblr fandom for this obscure show, which never ranked above 150 in Nielsen ratings. Micro-targeting niche audiences is now a cable trend. Like, in a nation of 325 million people, a TV audience of 1.5 million isn’t even half of 1% of the population, yet The 100 was recently renewed for its sixth season. Meanwhile, The CW keeps putting gay characters into shows like Supergirl (two lesbian police detectives, plus Lena Luthor, who obviously has the hots for Kara) and now, they’ve announced, Australian lesbian actress/model Ruby Rose will be cast as the title character in Batwoman. You’d think the Left would be happy, but there’s no pleasing the Internet mobs of Social Justice Warriors:

Ruby Rose has quit Twitter after a backlash over her casting as lesbian superhero Batwoman in The CW’s Arrowverse.
Rose’s casting is set to make her the first LGBTQ lead in a live-action superhero series. Two days after the announcement, the Australian actress deleted her Twitter account and limited comments on her Instagram account to only people she knew after some fans took to social media to express their anger . . .
Rose is the latest star to be hounded off social media after a fan backlash. Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown, Star Wars actresses Kelly Marie Tran and Daisy Ridley have all deleted their social media accounts following harassment, threats and relentless negativity.

Ace of Spades nails it here:

SJWs’ entire sense of self-worth and “accomplishment” depends on being aggrieved by literally anything. So attempting to appease them is useless; they must have something to bitch and whine about.
Apparently among the grievances is that Ruby Rose, though identifying as a lesbian since age 12 (which is another matter I won’t bother with), also says she’s “gender-fluid,” which means she’s not a perfectly lesbian lesbian therefore cannot play a lesbian.
Also, “straight girls” like her, and she’s “well-known,” so she can’t play a lesbian.
Also she’s “hot,” so that takes this particular lesbian out of contention to play a lesbian.

By the way, if you spend some time looking at the social-media presence of SJW types leading this outrage mob, you realize that a lot of them are just lonely introverted fat girls who call themselves “lesbian” (or “queer”) as a sour-grapes rationalization because cute boys don’t like them. They’re the female equivalent of the lonely Beta-male losers who populate “incel” forums, raging against the women who’ve rejected them.

Not everything in life is political, but “social justice” ideology appeals to frustrated losers who imagine their sense of victimhood entitles them to lecture the rest of us about our “privilege” — by which they mean, in this case, just not giving a damn about TV shows we don’t watch.

Really, what kind of pathetic loser do you have to be in order to care so intensely about “diversity” issues in the casting of TV shows? You’re just advertising to the world: “I DON’T HAVE A LIFE!”

It’s the same kind of people who spend all day every day obsessed with President Trump — “Russia! Russia! Russia!” — as a substitute for doing anything useful or meaningful in their own lives. If you’ve read Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer, you recognize the type: “The Role of the Undesirables in Human Affairs (p. 24), in particular “The Misfits” (p. 46). SJWs are the miserable dregs of society, the kids who weren’t popular in school and have spent the rest of their lives brooding over their unhappy childhood, seeking some form of emotional revenge.

There is no point trying to appease SJWs. Grant them every demand they make today, and tomorrow they’ll return with a new list of demands.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.)

Category: Culture, Gays, Hollywood

Russia! Russia! Russia!

Posted on | August 14, 2018 | 1 Comment

More evidence that the Obama administration collaborated with Fusion GPS to create a phony “Russian collusion” narrative in the media:

Veteran GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell suddenly found her name mixed up in the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
The first public mention of Mitchell came in a March 13 report released by Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The report listed Mitchell, a partner at the firm Foley & Lardner, as one of the “individuals or groups who were involved in or may have knowledge of third-party political outreach from the Kremlin to the Trump campaign.”
Two days later, McClatchy newspapers cited two anonymous sources who claimed that Mitchell expressed concerns just after the election that Russians had funneled secret cash to the National Rifle Association.
The origin of the claims about Mitchell, which she says are a “complete fabrication,” have remained a mystery for months. But notes taken during a meeting between Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr and Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, could shed light on how the allegations made their way into the public sphere.
The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned that during a Dec. 10, 2016, meeting in Washington, D.C., Simpson told Ohr that Mitchell learned of and was troubled by Russian funding for the NRA.
“An NRA lawyer named Cleta Mitchell found out about the money pipeline and was very upset, but the election was over,” Simpson said, according to Ohr’s handwritten notes, which were read to TheDCNF by a government source.
Simpson and Ohr were meeting to discuss Fusion GPS’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Ohr had been in contact with Christopher Steele, the former British spy was working for Simpson on the Trump dossier.
Ohr’s wife, a Russia expert named Nellie Ohr, also worked for Simpson and Fusion GPS, which worked for the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to dig up dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 election.

Read the whole thing. Cleta Mitchell had nothing to do with the NRA in 2016 and says this claim was manufactured out of thin air.

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Category: Corruption, Russia

In The Mailbox: 08.13.18

Posted on | August 13, 2018 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Extended ambient electronic mixes for studying, reading, or just chilling at Conelcast.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: So When Did DNC Co-Chair Keith Ellison Stop Beating His Girlfriend?
Twitchy: Fox News-Obsessed Brian Stelter Gets Antifa Reality Check From Caleb Hull
Louder With Crowder: Rowan Atkinson Stands Up For Free Speech, Defends Boris Johnson’s Burka Joke

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Sunday Lifting Thread – Your Routine, also, “‘People Are Bad. People Are Evil.’ I Don’t Buy It.”
American Power: New Focus On Denaturalization, also, We Need More Masculinity
American Thinker: Where Do We Get Such Losers?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Dallas’ Democratic Mayor Pro Tem Pleads Guilty To Bribery, Resigns, also, Antifa Continues Assault String
CDR Salamander: Ethics, Professionalism, Education, & The Military Profession On Midrats
Da Tech Guy: On Loyalty, also, I Declare August 16 “Point At The MSM And Laugh” Day
Don Surber: We Must Defend Alex Jones, also, Antifa Is The Future Of The Democrats
Dustbury: The Colosseum Of Clutter, also, Strange Search Engine Queries
The Geller Report: Britain Suffers 15 Acid Attacks A Week, Mostly In London, also, Antifa Calls For Removal Of President Trump, Overthrow Of Government
Hogewash: NGC 2108, also, Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
JustOneMinute: Now Breaking From…Minnesota?
Legal Insurrection: Phrase Of The Week – Perjury Trap, also, Stalking Brett Kavanaugh
The PanAm Post: Colombian President Santos’ Final Days In Office, Troubling Economic Legacy
Power Line: FBI Fires Peter Strzok, also, Why Normal Americans Hate The “Elites”
Shark Tank: Senator Rubio Wants Everglades Protection To Be Guaranteed, also, Election Supervisor Says There’s No Evidence Of Russians Breaching Voter Systems
Shot In The Dark: About Those Crickets
STUMP: Memory Monday – Last Week of June 1918
The Political Hat: Tech Overlords Of Silicon Valley – Gay Frogs & The Silencing Of Dissent
This Ain’t Hell: Three More Return, also, Personal Submarine Simulator 2.5
Victory Girls: Media Ignores Fact That Police, NBC Reporter Were Attacked By Antifa At Charlottesville
Volokh Conspiracy: Overturning Chevron Wouldn’t Gut The Administative State – But It Would Strengthen The Rule Of Law
Weasel Zippers: Judge Releases Defendants In Muslim Compound Case After Claims Of Racism, Islamophobia, also, CNN Calls Violent Antifa Radicals “Anti-Hate” Protestors
Megan McArdle: “Medicare For All”, The New “Repeal & Replace”
Mark Steyn: The Totalitarian Stupidity Of Social Media, also, The Surrender Of The Public Square

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The Lesbian NYU Professor Who Sexually Harassed Her Gay Male Student

Posted on | August 13, 2018 | 1 Comment

She’s in her 60s. She could plead senility, I guess:

The case seems like a familiar story turned on its head: Avital Ronell, a world-renowned female professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, was found responsible for sexually harassing a male former graduate student, Nimrod Reitman.
An 11-month Title IX investigation found Professor Ronell, described by a colleague as “one of the very few philosopher-stars of this world,” responsible for sexual harassment, both physical and verbal, to the extent that her behavior was “sufficiently pervasive to alter the terms and conditions of Mr. Reitman’s learning environment.” The university has suspended Professor Ronell for the coming academic year.
In the Title IX final report, excerpts of which were obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Reitman said that she had sexually harassed him for three years, and shared dozens of emails in which she referred to him as “my most adored one,” “Sweet cuddly Baby,” “cock-er spaniel,” and “my astounding and beautiful Nimrod.” . . .
Mr. Reitman, who is now 34 and is a visiting fellow at Harvard, says that Professor Ronell kissed and touched him repeatedly, slept in his bed with him, required him to lie in her bed, held his hand, texted, emailed and called him constantly, and refused to work with him if he did not reciprocate. Mr. Reitman is gay and is now married to a man; Professor Ronell is a lesbian. . . .
Two years after graduating from N.Y.U. with a Ph.D., Mr. Reitman filed a Title IX complaint against his former adviser, alleging sexual harassment, sexual assault, stalking and retaliation. In May, the university found Professor Ronell responsible for sexual harassment and cleared her of the other allegations. . . .
The problems began, according to Mr. Reitman, in the spring of 2012, before he officially started school. Professor Ronell invited him to stay with her in Paris for a few days. The day he arrived, she asked him to read poetry to her in her bedroom while she took an afternoon nap, he said.
“That was already a red flag to me,” said Mr. Reitman. “But I also thought, O.K., you’re here. Better not make a scene.”
Then, he said, she pulled him into her bed.
“She put my hands onto her breasts, and was pressing herself — her buttocks — onto my crotch,” he said. “She was kissing me, kissing my hands, kissing my torso.” That evening, a similar scene played out again, he said. . . .
When he got to New York, the behavior continued, he said, when after Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, Professor Ronell showed up at his apartment because her power had gone out. He said that, despite his objections, she convinced him that they could both sleep in his bed together. Once there, she groped and kissed him each night for nearly a week, he said. . . .
Diane Davis, chair of the department of rhetoric at the University of Texas-Austin, who also signed the letter to the university supporting Professor Ronell, said she and her colleagues were particularly disturbed that, as they saw it, Mr. Reitman was using Title IX, a feminist tool, to take down a feminist.
“I am of course very supportive of what Title IX and the #MeToo movement are trying to do, of their efforts to confront and to prevent abuses, for which they also seek some sort of justice,” Professor Davis wrote in an email. “But it’s for that very reason that it’s so disappointing when this incredible energy for justice is twisted and turned against itself, which is what many of us believe is happening in this case.”

My victim-blaming standards are consistent. If a sorority girl doesn’t want to get gang-raped by frat boys, she shouldn’t get passed-out drunk at the frat party. If a gay student doesn’t want to be groped by elderly lesbian professors, he should stay away from New York University.

Maybe the safest thing is just never go to college. Everybody on campus nowadays claims to be a victim of something. It’s not safe.

Category: Education

Just Some Headlines

Posted on | August 13, 2018 | Comments Off on Just Some Headlines

Those are just a few of today’s headlines from the stack at the Drudge Report. Because I’ve spent the past 36 hours working on a long and complicated post about Third Wave feminism, I felt a need to get some content up for y’all to talk about while I keep slaving away.

Category: Neutral Objective Journalism

Rule 5 Sunday: Guess Who’s Having A Baby?

Posted on | August 12, 2018 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Point woman in the war against heroin chic Kate Upton scored major points recently: not only is she expecting a child with Most Fortunate Man In America Justin Verlander, but lingerie maker Yamamay has signed her to promote their new collection, “The Perfect Fit”, which is intended to “adapt to the real body of the woman.” Take that, Vogue. Here’s a shot of Mrs. Verlander modeling some of the lingerie in question.

Not even showing yet.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #342, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns. Animal Magnetism addresses the unfortunate shortage of gingers with the Saturday Asian Invasion, and on a related topic offers Rule Five Field-Dressing Whales Friday.

EBL’s herd this week includes Sophia Magdalena Scholl, Alligator Love, Manual Transmission Rule 5, Lucky Lips (Asha Bhosle), and Lucky Lips (Ruth Brown), International Cat Day, Aerosmith Groupies, National S’Mores Day, Ilhan Omar, Emily Jendrisak, and Nichelle Nichols.

A View From The Beach has A Brilliant Choice For Rule 5 Saturday – Lilí Brillanti, What’s Up With ASMFC?, This Came Billed as the World’s Worst Video, Evangeline Ain’t Gonna Strip on Abrams’ Farm No More, Actress Tests Value in Market, Russia, Russia, Russiagate!, Women Get the Blues Over Red Meat, Maryland Crab Meat Fraught with Fraud, How the Post-WWII Cloth Shortage Gave Us the Bikini and Sunday Booty Call

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Charlbi Dean Kriek, his Vintage Babe is Elga Andersen, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Guess. At Dustbury, it’s Merrin Dungey and Marilyn vos Savant.

Thanks to everyone for the luscious linkagery!

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